Top News:
Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Source: the FBI searched a media consultant's home in its investigation into whether Fox News video outtakes, leaked to Vice and MMFA, came from hacked material — The search at City Council member Lynn Hurtak and Tim Burke's home was part of a probe into computer hacks at Fox News.
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Adweek, The Daily Beast, @willsommer, Insider, Newser, @craigtimes, @brianstelter, @oneunderscore__, CNN, @willsommer, The Wrap, @bristei, @tb_times, The Desk, Deadline, Florida Politics, Mediaite, The Hill, Awful Announcing and The Messenger
CNBC:
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook — - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety …
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@heidibeirich, @fboversight, @ttp_updates, @mastrobradipo, @haydenfield, @davidlaz, @jesselehrich, @accountabletech and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the media's coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting — The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months.
Discussion:
@janebsinger, @datadhrumil and @venkatananth
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40% — Twitter - already a small source of clicks for publishers - has further declined in importance as a traffic referrer in recent years.
Discussion:
@mattnavarra, @anelsona and @robpegoraro
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
An interview with Jimmy Finkelstein, the former owner of The Hill and founder of The Messenger, on the site's business model, expansion plans, critics, and more — In a wide-ranging sit-down, the former Hill owner opens up to Vanity Fair about what's to come for his week-plus-old news site …
Discussion:
@joepompeo, @jbenton, @scottgordonwi, @scclemons, @nataliekorach, The Wrap, @jason_kint, @joepompeo, @joeconchatv, @jbenton, @jbenton, @mediaevan, @clairehoworth, @scottnover, @jadubin5, @vanityfair, @ckrewson and @pkafka
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
A UK court clears for trial Hugh Grant's lawsuit against News Group Newspapers over alleged illegal snooping by The Sun journalists and investigators in 2011 — A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging …
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Variety, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, @dave1agar, New York Daily News, Plain Dealer, BBC, The Messenger, The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
An interview about free speech with Masha Gessen, who quit PEN America's board after the group disinvited Russian writers from an event when Ukrainians objected — A conversation about balancing free-speech commitments in an era of war. — Last week, my colleague Masha Gessen announced …
Discussion:
@megan_buskey, @ichotiner, @newyorker and @newyorker
Chris Pash / AdNews News:
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson criticizes the Global Disinformation Index, saying such organizations that rank news outlets have “undue influence on ad spend” — Robert Thomson, CEO of global media group News Corp, says he's discovered advertising agency staff letting personal …
Discussion:
International News … and New York Post
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A second wave of podcasting consolidation seems to have arrived with two acquisitions in the past week: Audily bought Rococo Punch and LiveOne bought Kast Media — Hello, hello, welcome back to Soundbite. This week is all about consolidation in podcasting.
Discussion:
Talking Biz News
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Freedom of the Press Foundation announces the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, a position dedicated to the reform of the US' secrecy infrastructure — In one of his last public talks, to a room full of more than 200 journalists, Daniel Ellsberg was asked what the media could do to better support whistleblowers.
Discussion:
@runasand, @freedomofpress, @raineyreitman, @twocatsand_docs, @azmatzahra and @johncusack
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Axios Local's July launch in San Diego will be its last in 2023 and possibly 2024; source: the program missed its $10M revenue forecast for 2022, netting $8.6M — The nationwide program—now in almost 30 markets—generated $8.6 million in 2022 — The nationwide network of free …
Discussion:
@markstenberg3, @mikeorren, @lucasgrindley, @adweek and TVNewsCheck
Wired:
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.
Discussion:
@laurengoode
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: CNN shifts CNN en Español's production to Mexico City, scaling back linear TV work and expanding mobile video; source: Atlanta and Miami may see job cuts — CNN will shift the bulk of its operations behind its Spanish-language efforts to Mexico City, scaling back production …
Discussion:
Adweek, @variety, @jason and Talking Biz News
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